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The name Aibonito is possibly a combination of Spanish and Taíno from Hatibon or Jatibon, which the native name of the Aibonito River. Jatibon most likely translates to "black river" or "night river", the indigenous name of the river which was later turned into a diminutive in Spanish (Jatibon-ito).
It is believed the island is only some 4,000 years old, and stone art left on the island attests it has been visited by man over milennnia. [6] Taíno natives made frequent trips to the island on fishing expeditions, and when they were defeated by the Spanish during the 1511 battle of Spanish–Taíno War for Borikén, the natives attempted a retreat to the Caja de Muertos but shortly ...
A lake in El Cajas. Park entrance. Low clouds. Scenic view within the park. El Cajas National Park or Cajas National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional El Cajas) is a national park in the highlands of Ecuador. It is located about 30 km west from Cuenca, the capital of the province of Azuay.
Caja de Muertos, with an area of 0.59 sq mi (1.54 km 2), is the largest island in the nature reserve. It is part of the Playa barrio of the municipality of Ponce. The island of Caja de Muertos is the main geographical feature of the reserve; it is located 4.8 nautical miles south of the coast of Puerto Rico.
Caja del Rio (Spanish: "box of the river") is a dissected plateau, of volcanic origin, which covers approximately 84,000 acres of land in northern Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States. The region is also known as the Caja , Caja del Rio Plateau , and Cerros del Rio.
Entrance to the Caja de las Letras Some of the boxes. The Instituto Cervantes, taking advantage of the presence of the vault in the basement of its headquarters (Caryatid Building) in Madrid (Spain), uses safe deposit boxes for great figures of Hispanic culture to deposit a legacy that will not be opened until the date they decide.
playing the Caja. The caja, a Colombian drum similar to a tambora, is one of the three main or traditional instruments of Vallenato music. [1] Caja, the slang word adopted to nickname this drum, means "box" in Spanish. There is also a Caribbean drum called caja, used in the music of Cuba.
The Quechua etymology of the place name is pretty straightforward and transparent. Colonial spellings Caxamalca ~ Caxamarca match contemporary Quechua pronunciation Kashamarka (written here in contemporary Quechua orthography), where marka is a Quechua-Aymara word for 'town' or 'region', and kasha is a Central and Northern Quechua word for 'thorn' or 'thorny plant'.